How to remove DeviceCentral and Bridge ?

Question

Hi all,
after installing DW CS3 (which took more than 30 min.) , I
was very unpleasantly surprised to notice that some apps named
DeviceCentral, Bridge and Bonjour were silently installed along
with DW - without prompting me, and even without a notification.
These occupy about 250MB, far more than DW itself. After reading
what are these for, I see they are all completely useless for me.
IMO it's a very bad practice to distribute such
installations.
The so called 'Bonjour' is even a third party program - and
not only that, but an additional service was installed, which
starts this program automatically when Windows boots.
As I don't need any of these, is there any way to safely
remove them? None of them has a separate uninstaller, but if an
Windows installer package was used to install them, they can be
probably removed by using msiexec in command line mode?
Thanks for any suggestions.
PS: maybe a proper installer of DW CS3 exists but I
downloaded by mistake some bundle?

Answer 1

> Anyway, are there some guidelines for manually removing
these additional
> apps?
I haven't seen any. They are what is known as "shared
applications" meaning
that other programs in the CS3 family rely on their presence.
Why they are
all necessary for DW is something I am not certain of.
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quote:
Originally posted by:
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> I believe that you have the options to install
components manually.
> No. First time I thought I just missed it, so
uninstalled everything and
> installed again - there are no any options, nor just a
simple warning that
> a
> lot of stuff will be installed additionaly.
>
>
>
quote:
Before someone else, some other participants, could offer
some tip or
> guideline, if you please state specific version of
Windows, because there
> are
> variety types of Windows, we need to know which one you
are using. And go
> from
> there, ok?
> My Windows is XP sp2, but I trully doubt in other
versions it's different.
> Anyway my problem is with XP sp2
> As you seem to use a Mac, were these components optional
for you?
>
>
quote:
As for "silently" installed, I don't think it is correct
statement. I
> believe that there is installation procedure asking you
question before
> you
> proceed to install, it gives you the steps of components
that installer
> program
> intends to install. The question, why did you go ahead
and install it away
> anyway?
> There were no questions whatsoever, except whether I
want to install DW
> CS3 -
> not whether I want to install DW CS3 plus a bunch of
useless applications
> plus
> something that looks like spyware to me (the so called
'Bonjour' starts
> automatically and then tries non-stop to connect to
something, even
> without any
> other Adobe app opened - which is a typical spyware
behavior)
>
> Anyway, are there some guidelines for manually removing
these additional
> apps?
>
>